Caity: Hey-llo! How is everyone today?! Me? I am excellent! Anyway... this story won't follow the original storyline of the anime, Ed's a state alchemist and they're still after the philospher's stone for the same reasons, so its basically a side mission sorta thing. I think that's about it....Soooooo let's get started.
Nae: Caity and I do not own Full metal alchemist, though Caity wishes that she owned Ed...but she does own her three OC's Caity, Nae and Tash (She's not very imaginative with names is she??)
Caity: -_-" You know just because you typed that in brackets doesn't mean that I can't read it..
Nae: oh ummm..... -Shifty eyes-..... uhmmm ACTION!
Prologue
It was dark. Cold. Damp. I could feel the coldness of the steel I was laying upon biting at me through my clothes. It was silent, except for the slow dripping of water somewhere within the room. I attempted to tug at the thick, leather straps, but I couldn't move my body, despite how hard I tried to struggle. Where am I? Whats going on? I ceased trying to move, the footsteps I could hear coming closer making me freeze. I could hear my rapid heartbeat as I lay still, my instincts saying that if I didn't move, the footsteps wouldn't find me. They stopped and a bright light switched on, blinding me. I clamped my eyes shut and listened to the footsteps as they slowly walked towards me and stopped, I could feel the man's presence just a metre from me.
The next thing I knew, I was watching from somewhere else. I could see my body lying discarded, lifeless, on the cold steel table. Am I dead? A large man walked around, drawing alchemy circles on the roof and floor. Satisfied, he touched his hands to the intricate drawings, a bright light filling the room.
I awoke. I screamed in terror as pain erupted through my body. Blackness quickly overtook me again and the pain was gone. I haven't awoken since...
"Colonel Mustang, the Elric brothers are here sir."
"Thank you Hawkeye, send them in," Mustang quickly swung his chair around so that his back was to the door, he had always wanted to do the whole evil-genius-chair thing.
"Hellooooo?" Al called as he clanked into the room after his little big brother.
"I've been expecting you...Edward..." Mustang whispered in his well-practiced scary voice as he swung his chair around to face them.
"...Ahhhh...." Ed muttered sarcastically as he pretended to be shocked by the colonels sudden appearance.
"What do you need us for?" Al asked as he rolled his eyes (Is that possible for a suit of armour? Oh well it is now!).
"Weeeeeeeeeell....hmmm I don't know, I mean what could I possibly want with a shrimp and a hunk of scrap metal...."
"HOW DARE YOU CALL ME SO SHORT THAT I COULD BE CRUSHED BY A GRAIN OF SAND!!" Ed exploded as he attempted to leap over the desk and rip Mustang apart.
"Brother...he didn't say that.." Al sighed as he grabbed his brother's arms and held him in place until he had calmed down.
"Well now that Ed's got that out of his system, let's go, there is someone I need you to talk to for me." Mustang rose from his chair, wincing both from the pain and the sound of hitting his knee on the underside of his table. Very professional. Very professional indeed.
"Why should I?" Ed scoffed as he crossed his arms.
"Well, firstly it's an order and secondly no-one else has been able to get the location of her friends out of her.." Mustang trailed off as he dug through a filing cabinet.
"Fine, whatever.."
"Great! Here you may need these," Mustang paused as he handed Ed three files he procured form the cabinet," Now let's go Eddie!"
"I TOLD YOU NEVER TO CALL ME THAT!!!!"
Mustang smirked as he strode past the frothing-at-the-mouth-Ed and out the door, leading the way through headquarters until they arrived at cell #13 (Caity's birthday!!! lol). Screaming and cursing could be heard from in inside, Ed and Al sweat dropped as they stopped outside the door to listen.
"-JUST YOU WAIT WHEN I GET OUTTA HERE I'LL COME AFTER EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!!! I'LL RIP OUT YOUR INTESTINES AND STRANGLE YOU WITH THEM!! YA HEAR ME!! I GUESS NOT! EITHER THAT OR I'M BEING IGNORED! STILL NOTHING HUH!? WELL YOU ASKED FOR IT!! ON THE GOOD SHIP LOLLIPOP IT'S A SWEET TRIP TO THE CANDY SHOP!!....I CAN'T REMEMBER THE REST OF THAT SONG RIGHT NOW, I'LL HAVE TO ASK MY FRIEND LATER, BUT WHEN I DO OH-HO-HO YOU'D BETTER WATCH OUT!! I'L-"
"Do I have to?" Ed asked Mustang, almost whining.
"Uh huh! Have fun..." Mustang sang as he waved and walked back to his office, he had a lot of windows to clean between now and lunch time....oh and of course there was all that paperwork too but that could wait until later...
"Damnit..." Ed sighed as he flicked the first file open and scanned it's contents quickly, the photo was of a blonde haired, blue eyed girl that reminded him strangely of Winry...
Name: Unknown
Alias: Caity
Military Title: The Crystal Ice Alchemist
Age: 14
Height: 163cm
Gender: Female
Nationality: Unknown
Blood type: Unknown
Background: Orphaned at the age of 6 and due to amnesia can't remember anything before this time. Obtained from hospital in Japan, but believed to be of German descent.
Other Information: Sharp shooter, was trained under Riza Hawkeye up until she escaped 6 months ago.
Ed sighed once more, gee that was informative...Rolling his eyes he opened the second folder to see a mischievous looking red-head staring back at him, her eyes held a familiar-looking creepy glint and his first thoughts were..
'I wonder if Mustang has a daughter..'
Name: Nae Volkova
Alias: Nae
Military Title: The Crystal Fire Alchemist
Age: 15
Height: 130cm
Gender: Female
Nationality: Russian
Blood type: O
Background: Orphaned at the age of 3, appears to have been subject to unknown experimentation.
Other Information: Weapon's specialist, trained under Maes Hughes until her disappearance 6 months ago. Doesn't appear to have alchemic powers.
Again, so much information. He opened the last file to see a brunette practically glaring at him. Shuddering, he reminded himself that it was only a picture and began to read..
Name: Tasha Mitchell
Alias: Tash
Military Title: The Crystal Lightning Alchemist
Age: 15
Height: 178
Gender: Female
Nationality: American
Blood Type: A
Background: Father served at the Japanese base of the military before he was suspected of illegal experimentation. He was found murdered at his home.
Other Information: Believed to be subjected to experimentation involving metal being fused to her bones. Trained under Alex Louise Armstrong until she disappeared 6 months ago.
"Well, Al let's get this over with I guess..."
Ed nodded to the guards and they unlocked the door. Ed and Al strode in, handcuffed inside was the blonde girl screaming at the top of her lungs.
"-MUSTANG! YOU DOG! WHEN I GET MY HANDS FREE I'LL MAKE YOU BEG FOR MERCY!! I HATE YOU! YOU SICK SON OF A-"
"Ahem..." Al fake coughed in an attempt to get the girls attention and it worked...for three seconds, before she continued.
"MUSTANG!!!! I'LL HAVE YOUR HEAD!! I SWEAR!!! LET ME GO!! DON'T MAKE ME USE THE SPORK!! YES, THAT'S HOW SERIOUS I AM!! I WOULD EVEN USE THE SPORK!!! I BET YOUR QUIVERING IN FEAR RIGHT NOW HUH!?? WELL YOU SHOULD BE-"
"Excuse me but could you please..SHUT UP!!" Ed exploded for the second time in five minutes. The girl stopped shouting and turned to glare at them.
"LOOK WHO'S TALKING DWARF!"
"DWARF!! I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I'M A STATE ALCHEMIST!!"
"WHATEVER, LAST I CHECKED THEY DON'T LET BLONDE DWARVES INTO THE MILITARY!"
"ARE YOU DISSING MY HAIR COLOUR!!??! YOUR BLONDE TOO!!"
"SHADDUP SHRIMPO!!"
"I SWEAR IF YOU WEREN'T HANDCUFFED I WOULD KILL YOU"
"OH REALLY!?"
"YEAH!"
"Guys that's enough!" Al shouted, Ed looked at Al with wide eyes, Al doesn't shout...he just doesn't. The girl 'hmphed' and turned her head away from them.
"Brother, remember why we're here ok?"
"Fine, but if she calls me short one more time!"
"....short..." the girl muttered, snickering when Ed went from calm to enraged in 1.3 seconds.
"Brother..."
"Yeah, yeah....let's get this done already.."
"So what's you name? I'm Alphonse and this is my brother Edward..."
"You can call me Caity."
"So why are you here?" Ed asked as his curiosity won over his insanely short temper.
"Hmph, I shan't speak!" Caity said, "I have the right to remain silent!"
"Well...why can't you te-" Al's sentence was interrupted by a rather large explosion that blew the wall between cell #13 and #14 apart. Smoke and dust rose as a mysterious figure came out of the shadows.
"It's about time! I was waiting for 2 days!! Where have you guys been??" Caity demanded as the dust cleared away and the Elric boys could see the figure clearly, it wasn't one person but two, the shorter red-head being perched upon the taller brunette's shoulders.
"Keshizumi!! Your information was wrong!! She wasn't in cell #14! I don't remember Caity being an old man!!!" The red-head cried as she hit one of her many pockets, pocketing a hand grenade with the other hand.
"Tchya! It doesn't matter we are here now! Your rescuers in shining armour! I even have a noble steed!!" She continued dramatically, patting the brunette on the head.
"What? You said that you had to be high up to blow apart that wall..." The brunette seethed.
"Well I like to make an entrance..." The red-head trailed off as the brunette threw her from her shoulders and to the ground.
"Owww....that one hurt..."
"Pshh.." The brunette scoffed as she tapped Caity's handcuffs causing them to fall off, Caity squeaked as a small electric shock jolted through her fingers. She stood up shakily as she rubbed her wrists.
"You guys are so lucky! One second later and I would have had to try escaping myself.."
"Wait what's going on?" Ed asked as he glanced backwards and forwards between the two newcomers.
"Heh, I almost forgot about you, guess I couldn't see you..." Caity said as he glanced at Ed from the corner of her eye. He marched up to her and the glaring contest began, this went on for 6 minutes before Ed realised that he had to bend his neck to stare.
"Ha! Your shorter than me!"
"Shut up! It's only two centimetres!!"
"I'm still taller than you.."
"Grrr" Caity snarled, but just as she was about to pounce on her prey, aka Ed, muffled shouts were heard in the hallway. Tash grabbed Caity and Nae's wrists and dragged them towards the hole in the wall.
"Come on you two, I think we've overstayed our welcome..."
"Fine! But we shall meet again Shrimpo!!"
"FOR THE LAST TIME! I AM TALLER THAN YOU!!"
"Bye guys!!" the red-head yelled as she waved excitedly, then they were around the corner and out of sight.
"What...just happened...brother.."
"I don't know Al, but I think we just let those two bust her out of jail..."
Mustang had finished cleaning his precious windows and decided to bug Ed some more before starting on that paperwork due in 7 minutes. He opened the door to find a huge hole in the wall, the prisoner gone, Ed and Al staring at the hole like idiots and no sign of a struggle.
"Elric, you had better have a good explanation for this.."
"Hehehe.. well ya see...they escaped..."
"Wait 'they'? There was more than one!"
"Yeah, including the prisoner there was three of them, why?"
"So they stayed together after all...thank you Ed! You did good kid."
"Don't call me kid!!"
"Gee, calm down Eddie, I need you to find and capture those three girls for me."
"What? I don't have time for that, I need to find the Philospher's Stone!"
"Oh well, that will just have to wait, you have more important things to deal with now...my wittle doggie.."
"Grrrr..."
Three hours later
"Where could they be?! We've searched everywhere for them! I swear that we've passed that tree four times already!!" Ed yelled, frustrated, as he pointed at a tree that was shaped like a kitten. Ed and Al walked down the street, stopping occasionally to interrogate street venders or random passerbyers. Nothing.
"I like that tree..."
"Al, now is not the time. We have to find those three, I have a bone to pick with the blonde one.." Ed growled as he shoved a photo of Caity in front of a man selling turnips, who trembled at the alchemist glare as he shook his head, misinterpreting Ed's annoyance.
"Don't be rash brother, please.."
"Fine Al, but if we don't find them soon I'm going back and telling Mustang where he can he can shove it..." Ed shoved the photo back into his pocket, Al giving the turnip man a quick 'Sorry'.
Four hours later
"This is ridiculous!!" Ed groaned as he dragged his feet along the ground, they had done about four laps of the city and they were still nowhere in sight.
"Brother I don't know if this important right now....but those two people over there have been following us for awhile..."
"What?!? Your telling me that those suspicious looking people in big coats and shades have been following us all this time and you didn't tell me!?!?"
"I tried to.."
Flashback
"Brother! There-"
"Oooh when I get my hands on her, I'm going to knock her into yesterday!!!"
"But brother there's two-"
"And then when she arrives in yesterday she can tell herself not to mess me tomorrow!! It's genius!"
"Look over there, we're being fo-"
"Heh heh that'll teach her for insulting my height! I'm taller anyways!!"
"Bro-"
"Maybe I'll give Mustang a piece of this too!!"
"But-"
"And while I'm at it that Havoc can feel some of my awesome wrath!! I'll beat him to pulp!"
Al gave up trying to warn his brother about their 'stalkers', Ed always did have a two-track mind: Vengeance on those who called him short in any way, shape or form and the other track being...food. Instead he opted to keep a close eye on them and tell his brother later when he had cooled down a little bit.
End of flashback
"Oh......I'm hungry....."
With the 'Stalkers'
"Ow!! You're not supposed to walk into the street lamps..." One of the people in the coats cried out as she rubbed her head after colliding with a random street lamp.
"Well your supposed to be guiding me!!" The coat yelled back. Oooook, a coat and it's wearer having an argument isn't something that you see everyday.
"Guys stop fighting people are staring!" The second coat wearer growled.
"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT!! YEAH I'M A COAT AND I'M TALKING DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM OR SOMETHI-"
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Bad coat! Bad!" The person yelled as they hit their coat repeatedly.
"Owie! Ouch! No not there! Ow! I'm sowwy!!!"
"Tchye, good coat!" The person said, giving the coat a quick pat, she then began to walk away....or more stumble, backwards. Unfortunately walking backwards means that you can't see, so as a result they walked into a bin. The force of the collision caused the person to split in half....no wait....it actually revealed the fact that it wasn't one person but two, one atop the others shoulders, proving the talking coat theory wrong, to one small child's disappointment...
"Damnit!" The 'coat' cursed as she stood up and clutched her head.
"Mumble mumble muffle muffle!! Mumffle!!!" The bin echoed, a pair of legs sticking out the top.
"What was that?"
"She's stuck in the bin" The second 'stalker' said as she rolled her eyes, a motion unseen due to her overly dark glasses. Those two were idiots...
"Oooooooooh I knew that!"
Across the street
"Is that..."
"What Al! Are the stalkers back?!?! No wait better yet you found that blonde shortie and now we can have our battle to the death!! Right?"
"Nooooooooo.....it's a kitty!"
"........"
"Here kitty, kitty!"
"Al....I hate you...."
"Awww who's a cute kitty-witty" Al cooed as he scratched the little black kitten behind the ear. Ed rolled his eyes and glanced the other way, which just so happened to be in the direction that the 'stalkers' were standing in. Ed's eyes widened as he watched two people try to pull the third one out of the trash can via their legs which were sticking out the top. His eyes narrowed as he inspected them closely, it was.....THEM!!
Caity: Muahahahha!! Cliffhanger!! Na-
Nae: Pssh some cliffhanger if they can't guess who it is then they're denser than you....
Caity: Yeah!
Nae: (Retard...)
Caity: Again! Just because you write stuff in brackets does not take away my ability to read it!
Nae: (She lies!!)
Caity: Also, since this is Nae and I's first story that properly incorporates OC's, please be kind if they are confusing and let us know if anything needs clearing up! You're sure to have one of us reply within the next couple of hours...
Nae: Unless we is asleep...
Caity: Yes, cause then we wont answer for obvious reasons....
Nae: Or if we are eating....
Caity: Or on the toilet....
Nae: Or sitting atop some random's roof cooking salami sandwiches on a portable stove thingy and dropping them down the random's chimney....
*crickets*
Caity:Riiiiight.....
Character descripos - Cause we be too lazy to incorporate them into the story! We will eventually have drawings up on our page, but till then!
Caity - Hair - Blonde with side fringe and two high-set pigtails.
Eyes - Blue
Clothes -Short blue jacket, the right sleeve hangs below her hand whereas the left is rolled up to below her elbow, plain white singlet underneath, black pleated skirt and
pistol holsters. On her left leg, plain blue tights with black, below knee boots. Right leg, mid thigh black and blue striped sock and below knee boot. Has the whole
mis-matched, lop sided look.
Nae - Hair - Mid back lenght red hair with striaght fringe and choppy, randomly cut layers. Wears a black and green cat beanie with long tassels.
Eyes - Green
Clothes - An off-shoulders, loose green crop top with tighter black crop top underneath, green fingerless gloves, black, a-few-sizes-too-big, heavily pocketed cargo pants,
black with green laces skate shoes and suspenders. Childish looking.
Tash - Hair - Brunette, heavy side swept fringe with bits framing her face, short and choppy at the back with a headband
Eyes - Brown
Clothes - Very short black and red jacket with mid upper arm sleeves whoch slope to about her wrist, black corset - like sleeveless shirt over a white blouse, red ruffled
skirt and thigh high black boots. She's got the whole sudectress thing going on.
